Most Popular Engineering Universities in USA in 2021
According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject top 91 engineering colleges among 502 top colleges are situated in USA. Five different branches of engineering like chemical, civil and structural, electrical, mechanical, mineral and mining are covered in the ranking. The ranking is based on 4 factors:
1. Academic reputation
2. Employer reputation
3. Research citations per paper
4. H-index.
10 most popular universities for engineering and technology subject in USA
| US Ranking | World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston(MA) |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University | San Francisco(CA) |
| 3 | 5 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | San Francisco (CA) |
| 4 | 12 | Harvard University | Boston (MA) |
| 5 | 13 | MGeorgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | Atlanta (GA) |
| 6 | 14 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Los Angeles(CA) |
| 7 | 17 | Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh(PA) |
| 8 | 19 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | Los Angeles (CA) |
| 9 | 27 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Champaign and Urbana (IL) |
| 10 | 28 | University of Texas at Austin | Austin |
Beside the list 19 universities are located in top 50. Purdue university got 32nd position for engineering and technology. This ranking is based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Top 5 most popular universities in chemical engineering
| US Ranking | World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston (MA) |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University | San Francisco (CA) |
| 3 | 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | San Francisco (CA) |
| 4 | 7 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Los Angeles (CA) |
| 5 | 15 | Princeton University | Princeton (NJ) |
Out of 401 universities 85 top universities are from USA. MIT also comes out at top level for chemical engineering. Cornell university got 30th place, university of Pennsylvania got 40th place, university of Delaware got 48th place and This ranking is based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Top 5 universities for civil and structural engineering
| US Ranking | World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston(MA) |
| 2 | 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | San Francisco (CA) |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston(MA) |
| 3 | 13 | Stanford University | San Francisco (CA) |
| 4 | 18 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | Atlanta (GA) |
| 5 | 24 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Champaign and Urbana (IL) |
Out of 203 universities 33 universities are located in top 50 from USA. MIT came out top in the world again. Stanford university ranked in 13th, Purdue university ranked in 27th, Texas A&M university do not get chance in top 50 and This ranking is based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Top 5 universities for electrical engineering
| US Ranking | World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston(MA) |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University | San Francisco (CA) |
| 3 | 3 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | San Francisco (CA) |
| 4 | 10 | Harvard University | Boston (MA) |
| 5 | 13 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | Los Angeles (CA) |
Harvard university got 10th position and Carnegie Mellon university got 24th position and university of Michigan Ann Arbor got 26th place in electrical engineering. MIT claim the top rank again for This ranking is based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Top 5 universities for mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing engineering
| US Ranking | World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Boston(MA) |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University | San Francisco (CA) |
| 3 | 4 | Harvard University | Boston(MA) |
| 4 | 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | San Francisco (CA) |
| 5 | 10 | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor (MI) |
Purdue university got 20th place, Cornell university got 36th rank and the university of Illinois performed well. This ranking is based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Top 5 popular universities for mineral and mining engineering
| US Ranking | World Ranking | Institution | Location |
| 1 | 1 | Colorado School of Mines | Golden (CO) |
| 2 | 13 | Pennsylvania State University | Philadelphia (PA) |
| 3 | 20 | University of Arizona | Tucson (AZ) |
| 4 | 22 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) | Blacksburg (VA) |
| 5 | 28 | University of Colorado at Boulder | Boulder (CO) |
University of Utah and Missouri university of science and technology also performed very well and got a good rank in the list. This ranking is based on the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
In this article we discussed about top universities from USA and also in the world for technology, chemical, civil and structural, electrical, mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing and mineral and mining engineering.
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